On the afternoon of Saturday, September 7, a landslide was recorded near the federal highway 120 San Juan del Río-Xilitla, at kilometer 147, at the entrance to the municipality of Pinal de Amoles, in the state of Querétaro.
According to local media reports, the municipal president of Pinal de Amoles, Guadalupe Ramírez Plaza, reported that work in the area could take up to 2 days because the rock slide continues, so it was not possible to intervene with machinery.
“We are already making arrangements with the State Government, because our governor immediately ordered that heavy machinery be coming out at this time, since there were around 400 m³, that is, it is a total collapse,” she explained.
The Civil Protection Coordination of the State of Querétaro reported that no injuries were reported after the hill collapse. He also explained that the accident is being attended to with the support of machinery and operational personnel by the Querétaro State Infrastructure Commission, together with local authorities, to carry out work to remove the material and restore vehicular traffic.
Due to the magnitude of the landslide, the Civil Protection Coordination asks for patience from the users of this road and urges them not to circulate through the area, since vehicular traffic is currently closed.
For its part, the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) of the State of Querétaro, reported that the approximate time of work in the area will be 8 hours, so it urges the population to take alternate routes while the removal of the material is carried out.
According to local media, given the magnitude of the landslide, it was decided to suspend the celebrations of the first anniversary of the municipality’s naming as a Magical Town, while cleanup work is carried out in the area.
Landslide buries family in Xalapa, Veracruz
The Civil Protection Secretariat of the State of Veracruz reported this Friday, September 6, the landslide of a hill in the 9 de Abril neighborhood, in the municipality of Xalapa. In the incident, seven people were buried by the collapsed material, of which four managed to get out on their own and three more – among them a baby and two adults – were found dead.
“The task forces that are attending the landslide in the 9 de Abril neighborhood of Xalapa, report the location of the bodies of the 2 people searched for at the site, bringing the total to 3 dead people,” the agency said in a publication of X.
The rescue was carried out during the early hours of Friday, in which emergency teams and task forces from the three levels of government participated, in which the corporations present implemented emergency plans (Tajín, DN-III, National Guard) and evacuated the surrounding homes as a precaution.
The cause of the landslide was apparently a water leak that was not attended to and the softening of the earth as a result of the recent rains in the state, according to reports from neighbors cited by local media.
Huixquilucan registers landslides and material damage
On the Zacamulpa highway, a landslide was recorded this Friday, September 6, in which at least two houses and a public transport vehicle were affected.
In the same municipality, media reported the death of a woman after her house was crushed by an earth slope in the community of San Juan Yautepec, Huixquilucan. Testimonies assured that they tried to help her, however, Olga was no longer responding.
The municipal authorities reported that they try to respond to all calls for support due to landslides, since they detailed that up to last week 78 slopes had been recorded in different points.
Source: infobae
